Border Security System Left Open

7x7 writes "Wired News is running an article on documents they recovered via the Freedom of Information Act and a lawsuit. From the article:" A computer failure that hobbled border-screening systems at airports across the country last August occurred after Homeland Security officials deliberately held back a security patch that would have protected the sensitive computers from a virus then sweeping the internet, according to documents obtained by Wired News." It looks like Zotob made it in to the supposedly protected network."

Comments

Let me get this straight

[pHatidic]

The government agency in charge of US security runs windows?

What next, making Ron Jeremy the pornography czar?

Re:Let me get this straight

[Anonymous Coward]

As our enterprising leaders promote mandatory travel checkpoints, screening and recording every citizen who arrogates to move faster than bicycle-pace, I can practically feel myself tingling with safety.

How dare you joke about their ineptitude? Don't you realize that every dollar spent on Homeland security is a dollar that otherwise would have gone to some terrorist who snuck through the border and stole a job in preparation to launch a dirty nuclear bomb in the middle of a preschool, for God's sake?

Instead of criticizing, please, take a moment to say thank you next time.

Failures are routine apparently

[frdmfghtr]

Publicly, officials initially attributed the failure to a virus, but later reversed themselves and claimed the incident was a routine system failure.

I guess when you run Windows, failures are routine...